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Washington, D. C. May, 1909. 

Dear Sir: In view of the apparent sentiment for a downward 
revision of the tariff, and its strength in the agricultural states; 
the gradual disappearing of the tariff as a party issue; the cor- 
nering in few hands of many of the natural resources of the 
country, and the accumulation in few hands of the predominate 
percentage of the ready capital of the country; the gradual 
effacing of the small dealer, and small manufacturer; the repre- 
sentation that a high tariff is for the benefit of American labor, 
while manufacturers unmistakably show very material and 
sometimes inordinate participation in such tariff profits; the 
menaces of both organized and insolent labor, and organized 
and insolent capital; that community of corporate capital, and 
suffrages of labor have been employed in the past as a sort of 
balance of power in National elections, without reference to the 
interest of the farmer small dealer, small manufacturer-capital- 
ist; and that the Catholic Church as a capitalist (holding at the 
time of the Spanish- American War $60,000,000 of Spanish bonds 
alone), one supreme mind controlling all of its capital; inter- 
ested in aiding to control the industrial situation, and as a 
practical political church, making alliance serving her selfish 
earthly interest; seeking to control and in such selfish interest 
direct the suffrages of her communicants; that to her selfish, 
political, ecclesiastical and capitalistic interest she makes de- 
mand upon parties profiting by her directed suffrages, her pres- 
ent predominating participation in the executive administration 
of the National Government in this District; I address you as 
an American citizen, to know your disposition toward a National 
movement for political and industrial purification, which move- 
ment shall rescue the farmer, and small labor-capitalist, and 
small manufacturer-capitalist, who are both laborers and capi- 
talists, from the eclipse and burdens they have suffered since 
the entrance of the Catholic Church as a recognized element of 
Republican strength, and the magnifying of the manufacturer 
and the hired laborer, to the detriment of the interests of, and 
the growing menace to the farmer-capitalist, and the other small 
labor-capitalist and manufacturer-capitalist. 

Warrant for such a movement seems to be found in the 
President's Philadelphia speech of April 27th. "Speaking from 
the standpoint, I hope, of real patriotic interest in my country, 
I look forward into the ne'xt decade, not with the hope that the 
South shall become Republican and make the country all Re- 
publican, for'staunch as I am in my support of the Republican 



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party, I think a good opposition, a good strong patriotic opposi- 
tion is necessary to make the Republican party, if it is to con- 
trol the government, useful to the people and a defeat at times 
would not hurt it." 

It will hardly be denied that the founders of this country fled 
from a feudalism in which the Church had a part and which is 
analogous to the insidious system now growing up in. this 
country, by which the capitalist corporate bargains with the 
Catholic Church through the dominant party to hold the hired 
laborer in check against socialistic influence in return for po- 
litical preferment and appropriations for the Catholic Church. 
The old feudalism in a new shape, which, when through the 
larger cities grown to sufficient proportions and strength, can 
unitedly turn upon the farmer and small labor-capitalist, and 
without a tariff, and by more direct and summary means, levy 
tribute to the feudal capitalistic church combination, even to 
loss of the political suffrage. 

As pertinent to the proposition to form a new political party, 
to be led by Washington and Lincoln patriots, instead of po- 
litical Judases; commanding the sympathy and support of the 
patriotic farmer, whose patriotism has been tested with every 
burden of war and peace; and the small dealer-manufacturer 
capitalist, to be known as the Lincoln League, or the Washing- 
ton-Lincoln League; and as an ample sub-structure for the same, 
I beg to quote to you the immortal Lincoln himself, in his mes- 
sage to Congress, of Dec. 3d, 1861, as follows: "It continues to 
develop that the insurrection is largely, if not exclusively, a 
war upon the first principle of popular government — the rights of 
the people. 

" Conclusive evidence of this is found in the most grave and 
maturely considered public documents, as w r ell as in the general tone 
of the insurgents. In those documents we find the abridgment 
of the selection of public officers except the legislative, boldly 
advocated, with labored arguments to prove that large control 
of the people in government is the source of all political 
evil. Monarchy itself is sometimes hinted at as a possible 
refuge from the power of the people. In my present position I 
could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising a warning voice 
against this approach of returning despotism. It is not needed, 
or fitting here, that a general argument should be made in favor 
of popular institutions; but there is one point, with its CONNEC- 
TIONS, not so hackneyed as most others, to which I ask a brief 
attention. If is the effort to place capital on an equal footing 
with, if not above, labor, in the structure of the Government. It 



is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capi- 
tal; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, 
somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. This assumed, 
it is next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire 
laborers, and thus induce them to work by their own consent, or 
buy them, and drive them to it without their consent. Having 
proceeded so far, it is naturally concluded that all laborers are 
either hired laborers, or what we call slaves. And further, it is 
assumed that whoever is once a hired laborer, is fixed in that 
condition for life. Now, there is no such relation between capi- 
tal and labor as assumed; nor is there any such thing as a free 
man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both 
these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are 
groundless. Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capi- 
tal is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if 
labor had not first existed. 

"Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves much higher 
consideration. Capital has its rights, which are worthy of pro- 
tection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that there is, and 
probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital, 
producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the 
whole labor of the community exists within that relation. A 
few men own capital, and those few avoid labor themselves, 
and, with their capital, hire or buy another few to labor for 
them. A large majority belong to neither class — neither work 
for others, nor have others working for them. In most of the 
Southern States, a majority of the whole people of all colors are 
neither slaves nor masters; while in the Northern, a large 
majority are neither hirers nor hired. Men, with their families — 
wives, sons, and daughters — work for themselves, on their farms, 
in their houses, and in their shops, taking the whole product to 
themselves, and asking no favors of capital on the one hand, nor 
of hired laborers or slaves on the other. 

"It is not forgotten that a considerable number of persons 
mingle their own labor with capital — that is, they labor with 
their own hands, and also buy or hire others to labor for them; 
but this is only a mixed, and not a distinct class. No principle 
stated is disturbed by the existence of this mixed class. Again, 
as has already been said, there is not of necessity any such thing 
as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life. 

"Many independent men everywhere in these States, a few years 
back in their lives, were hired laborers. The prudent, penniless 
beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus 
with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his 



own account another while, and at length hires another new 
beginner to help him. This is the JUST and generous and pros- 
perous SYSTEM, which opens up the way to all, gives hope to 
all, and consequent energy and progress and improvement of 
condition to' all. No men living are more worthy to be trusted 
than those who toil up from poverty — none less inclined to take 
or touch aught which they have not honestly earned. Let them 
BEWARE of SURRENDERING A POLITICAL POWER which they 
already possess, and which, if surrendered, will surely be used to 
close the door of ADVANCEMENT against such as they, and to 
fix new DISABILITIES and BURDENS upon them, TILL ALL OF 
LIBERTY SHALL BE LOST." Thus spake Lincoln. 

Lincoln undoubtedly read in the "developed" "public docu- 
ments" of which he spoke, the plan of enslaving the common 
people to be pursued if the Southern rebellion should be suc- 
cessful — the plan now being pursued successfully through the 
conspiracy with the Republican party, which failed through the 
conspiracy with the Democratic party; or his great intellect, illu- 
minated by Divinity and attuned to the real condition by his 
wonderful drafts upon sacred and profane history and its con- 
crete lessons in our free institutions, and their mission as ex- 
pounded by Washington, Adams, Madison, and Jefferson. John 
Adams, the second President, had said: "Another event still 
more calamitous against human liberty was a wicked con- 
federacy between the two systems of tyranny above described. 
It seems to have been stipulated between them that the tem- 
poral grandees should contribute everything in their power to 
maintain the ascendency of the priesthood, and that the spiri- 
tual grandees, in their turn, should employ their ascendency 
over the consciences of people in impressing on their minds 
a blind, implicit obedience to civil magistracy. Thus, as long as 
the confederacy lasted and the people were held in ignorance, 
liberty, and with her, knowledge and virtue, too, seemed to have 
deserted the earth, and one age of darkness succeeded another, 
till God, in His benign Providence, raised up the champions who 
began and conducted the Reformation." (Works of John Adams, 
vol. iii., pp. 450-1.) 

Recognizing the undeniable alliance of the Catholic Church, 
herself a capitalist, with the capitalists, restraining her laboring 
communicants when posible from socialistic association, which 
is expression of their idea of industrial freedom, I would supple- 
ment this with Lincoln's vow against the Catholic Church: "That 
while an almighty ruling Providence permitted him to see the 
light of day and breathe the pure air of Heaven, and so long as 
he had a brain to think, a heart to feel, and a hand to execute 



HIS will, he would devote them all against that infernal power 
that was the enemy of all free government and of the free insti- 
tutions of his country, that polluted the Temples of Justice 
with its presence and attempted to use the machinery of the 
law to oppress and crush the innocent and helpless." I would 
illuminate this with Lincoln's public utterances, so pointedly 
apt to this Church, and having his "great purpose,'' thus almost 
unerringly indicated in its essence, 1 believe the farmer, small 
labor-capitalist, small manufacturer-capitalist, and the Socialis- 
tic hired laborer, would discern the National danger, and again 
rally to the support of Lincoln and his purpose, as they did in 
1858-1860 to 1865. * 

I would suggest as a tenet the finding by a Tariff Commission 
or fixed statistical bureau within an existing Department, repre- 
senting in its composition the farmer, the small dealer, the small 
manufacturer, the large manufacturer, and the hired laborer, the 
tariff rate which will not only protect the widely divergent in- 
terests of the larger manufacturer and his hired laborer, but 
that the farmer's and small labor-capitalist's interest or advan- 
tage, if any, be not the incidental crum from the table of the 
corporate manufacturer; but that their direct interests be as 
directly and scientifically considered, ascertained as nearly as 
practicable, and as securely fixed by legislation. I am aware of 
the existence of the law of supply and demand, and the law of 
the survival of the fittest. 

The idea of such a Commission continuously working, depend- 
ing for information from all quarters and sources, made free of 
capitalistic influence bvy its mixed complexion, if anything can 
be made free from capitalistic influence, is to defeat a tariff law 
born out of an unholy alliance between capital and the Catholic 
Church and hurriedly framed, which will go further in alliance to 
the destruction of civil and religious liberty. I believe when 
the Catholic Church is shorn of her political power; shorn of 
her power to make her sophistries appear real conditions, we will 
find much of evil in our political system, Legislative, Adminis- 
trative, and Judicial, tempered, minimized, and extirpated. 

That pending the framing of a tariff by such a Commission 
and the complete elimination in the Nation and the States of 
appropriations to the direct or indirect aid of the Catholic 
Church, or any interest allied or associated with her, and the 
inhibition of licensing and absolving by her of crime independent 
of our laws; that the present tariff law be continued — its disad- 
vantages — if any, suffered. Its advantages to special interests — 
if any, enjoyed. Thus making a spur upon all to hasten a con- 
dition of general industrial and civil liberty. 



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It has ever been the policy of Rome to foment discord between 
sections or parties to keep her balance of power, and blackmail 
the section or party she helps with her votes. So long as she 
is allowed to remain a political factor and recipient of adminis- 
trative, legislative, or judicial favors, one section or party will 
be a prey to the cupidity or jealousy of the other. When she is 
politically disarmed; when legislators and executives change 
from politicians to patriots, natural and real friends will recog- 
nize each other, and tariff and other legislation will lose the 
complexion of a fight and measure men true enough to speak in 
eulogy on February 12th and 22d. 

Have we an illustration for Mr. Lincoln' and Mr. Adams in the 
Republican party of today? In quoting Senator Carter I call 
his attention to the fact that my tariff commission idea is not 
clothed with legislative power, but as showing the workings of 
the very evil of which Lincoln warned; I first quote Senator 
Carter and follow with my illustration. Senator Carter, on May 
8th, said in debate, as quoted by the Washington Post: 

"He cited one bureau. . . . 'We have witnessed acts of 
tyranny,' continued Mr. Carter; 'things for which we are respon- 
sible, but for which we have disclaimed responsibilty, committed 
through regulations and orders, which if brought in here in the 
shape of a bill would be looked upon with abhorrence. I am op- 
posed to the delegation of congressional powertoanyof these com- 
missions. When we become inefficient let us call for a receiver 
or then appoint a commission; but until that day let us hold 
every Senator and every Representative to his full responsibility." 
My experience is: In 1906, to forward a scheme of the Catholic 
Church, the Roosevelt administration sought to confiscate pri- 
vate property through leases made in 'direct violation of law. 
The owner or a joint owner, a Methodist clergyman, resisted. 
Later he was ordered by an officer of the Interior Department 
to do an unlawful, an unmanly act, and an act of despotism. He 
refused, and by the Interior Department was deprived of his 
revenue from his investment for nine weeks. In that time, 
through me, he perfected an appeal upon legal and equitable 
grounds to the Secretary of the Interior, only to have the un- 
lawful action affirmed. 

Knowing the indomitable will and inflexible integrity of my 
client, and that at whatever cost, he would go to his death be- 
fore doing that act, I wrote the Secretary of the Interior after 
the decree, using these words: "Mr. Proctor is some seventy- 
seven years of age, Mrs. Proctor, my sister, is some seventy-five 
years of age and sightless. 



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"The strain of uncertainty of the past year as to whether they 
should be able to save the house and business, and the present 
incident which intensifies the strain, makes me apprehensive of 
the result, and even at the risk of seeming to appeal to your 
sympathy, my duty to them in their old age is a matter of con- 
cern to me. These two old people who have for nearly twenty 
years lived in this bath-house, and night and morning on bended 
knee asked a blessing on the sick and invalid within their gates, 
and upon those in authority, may be convicted and punished 
for alleged misdemeanor by the simple edict of Mr. W. Scott 
Smith. Can it be that Mr. W. Scott Smith, claiming absolute 
power" is clothed with a power by which he can systematically 
worry these old people until to save their very lives, they will 
let go to parties who have asked for option, their business and 
their home? Must I think that is what you mean?" This letter 
was written Nov. 4, 1907, and Mr. Sec'y Garfield made no reply. 
On Nov. 20, 1907, I wrote Mr. Sec'y Latta of the Executive 
Office in part as follows: "Complying with your request of this 
morning, I herewith submit the copies desired ... I had 
hoped that it would not be necessary to ask the President's 
attention to this, and in the peculiar condition of this case, I 
felt my duty would not be fully done to him, until I had 
served him with a copy of my letter to Mr. Secretary Garfield, 
and given him an opportunity for examination of the case if he so 
desired." Two days later the papers were returned without 
comment. On December 6th I made a direct appeal to the 
President which was referred to the Secretary of Interior, and 
no action. December 12th I again wrote the President from 
which I quote: "Yesterday I received a telegram that the man 
in whose behalf I made appeal was at the point of death; his 
life in danger, I am satisfied, largely because of his indefensible 
treatment by the Interior Department, over the last fourteen 
months. In an effort to save his life, I overruled his conscien- 
tious scruples, ordering the discharge of his servant that he 
might be told the water had been restored. My present duty is 
to save his life if I can, and as quickly as possible safeguard by 
fixing his title, tenure, and relation. Restoring the water does 
not dispose of the case. Whether he shall survive this shock or 
not, his conscientious scruples will be vindicated by you, by 
Congress, or public opinion." Two days afterward, on Decem- 
ber 14, 1907, ex-Secretary Hitchcock before the Commercial 
Club of Chicago, speaking of the Hot Springs of Arkansas, of 
which utility this Proctor bath-house is a part, said: "The 
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well known at home and abroad, and will be more highly appre- 
ciated when the efforts that have been made, and are still being 
made, to wholly eliminate POLITICAL INTERFERENCE with their 
management are successful, and modern methods are introduced 
(the Catholic and American Medical Association National 
Health Department scheme), instead of existing conditions, 
which are 'in every respect discreditable." Lincoln had said: 
"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher 
to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to 
violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never 
to tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of '76 did 
to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the 
support of the Constitution and laws let every American pledge 
his life, his property, and his sacred honor. Let every man remem- 
ber that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father 
and to tear tiie charter of his own and his children's liberty." 
Robert Proctor, heeding Lincoln, went to his death a victim of 
his integrity and the Roosevelt "Big Stick," wielded in the 
interest of this feudalistic, political, capitalistic, Catholic Church 
combination, while the American people applauded the Roose- 
velt "Big Stick" and the Catholic Church fawned upon him. 
Robert Proctor died January 19, 1908. Mr. Representative 
Robinson introduced in the House a resolution for an investi- 
gation in my behalf. This resolution was referred to the Com- 
mittee on Rules, consisting of the Speaker, Representatives 
Sherman, Dalzell, Williams, and DeArmond. 

This resolution was introduced twice — January 23, 1908, and 
February 4, 1908. These resolutions I supplemented with let- 
ters, as follows: To the Speaker-Chairman on February 7th, 
February 26th, and March 13th, and to "Hon. John Dalzell, 
Committeee on Rules," March 24, 1908. In these letters was 
set out the case fully, and a hearing prayed for, which being de- 
nied, I filed charges for impeachment against James Rudolph 
Garfield for "a wilful violation of law." After the curt dis- 
missal of my case by Mr. Dalzell, I wrote him the letter from 
which I quote: "If your committee shall refuse opportunity for 
vindication, I believe Rev. Robert Proctor, though dead, can 
yet speak effectively in this campaign in his own vindication — 
the vindication of the natural and constitutional right of 
any man in this country to maintain and preserve his 
integrity and his allegiance to Almighty God without sacri- 
fice of his property or loss of his life at the hands of any 
executive officer of the United States, however exalted, or 
in the interest of any combination, however insistent. 



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Because I have been almost absolutely alone in this matter and 
denied interview by the Secretary of the Interior, I have been 
obliged to put this case on merit and invoke and rely on the 
equitable aid of Congress as is my constitutional right. It has 
been a matter of necessity to which I have been driven for 
protection of property and vindication of Robert Proctor's 
integrity for which he went to his death, under this pressure; a 
duty approached, and so far performed in mental pain, but from 
which I will not turn back. Whatever your opinion and deci- 
sion, in the light of this matter as I view it, I trust you can 
give me credit for that candor which should be an element in 
the consideration of any question which involves a man's life, 
his health or his estate. This Robinson resolution has now 
been before your committee for action for two months; I have 
put my case before you in writing and nothing has been done. 
I feel that after one more week of inaction, I may fairly infer 
that the committee will take no action, and that I must seek 
other means of relief. I thank you, Sir, for your personal 
courtesy, and beg to remain." There that trial ended. If you 
will look it up, you will find that the Republican complexion 
of the Rules Committee of the House at that time, was two 
capitalists and a corporationattorney. Similar experiences engen- 
dered such hostility to the Rules Committee, that upon organi- 
zation of the present House, insurgent Republicans sought to 
change the House rules. The vote was to be close, sure. Un- 
less help came from the Democrats the grip of the Rules Com- 
mittee was gone. A Speaker shorn of much power. 

An insurgent Democrat now appears upon the scene with 
amendments emasculating the pending resolution of the Insur- 
gent Republicans. The vote is taken and the Rules Committee 
dominates as of yore, just enough disfigured to justify an in- 
surgent Democrat in beingan insurgent, and not enough disfigured 
to injure its efficient work. The Speaker retains the power to 
make up the committees — the Rules Committee is reorganized — 
and lo! the Catholic-Democrat, Leading Insurgent's name ap- 
pears with his chief's, the only Democrats on the committee. 
And the Catholic Democratic Insurgent named for this com- 
mittee was not the only Catholic Democratic Insurgent who 
saved the power of the Speaker. So, the Speaker's power over 
legislation was saved to him in a critical moment by Catholic 
Democratic Insurgents. When we remember that it is popu- 
larly claimed that, because of such power, what the Speaker 
wants passed, is passed, and what he don't want passed, is not 
passed; that his party is committed by its platform to the 



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National Health Department scheme, and that alone of many 
other legislative schemes gives him ultimately a permanent Cabi- 
net position, you won't have to wait many years to find that 
the Republican party of this day is not the Republican party of 
Lincoln, but the Republican party of the Pope. 

Lincoln said to a Methodist delegation May 14th, 1864: "It is 
no fault in others that the Methodist Church sends more soldiers 
to the field, more nurses to the hospitals, and more prayers to 
Heaven than any other." Where is the record of his talk to a 
Catholic delegation of patriots assuring him of support? With 
scant courtesy Speaker Cannon dismissed a Methodist delegation 
within about a year, retains his power over legislation through 
Catholic Democratic Insurgents, is put under personal political 
obligation to the Church, acknowledged by Catholic Fitzgerald's 
appointment to the Rules Committee; and the Catholic Church 
waits expectant that her scheme to divert through legislation 
the sick of the Nation to her own hospitals for private gain, or 
repeat the Providence Hospital incident amplified. Wherein it 
was failed to restrain the payment of money "upon and by 
virtue of an agreement or contract between the Surgeon-General 
of the Army (a 'regular' physician by reason of his being 
Apostolically a part of the Priesthood of the Catholic Church 
and officially a part and parcel of her Church government and 
economy) and the directors of said hospital (the Catholic Sisters 
of Charity of Emmitsburg, Maryland), or their agents, under 
color of authority to provide 'for the support and medical treat- 
ment of ninety-five medical and surgical patients, who are 
destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be 
made with the Surgeon-General of the Army,' wherein it is 
provided 'that they (the Commissioners of the District of Co- 
lumbia) will erect on the grounds of said hospital an isolated 
BUILDING or ward for the treatment of minor contagious 
diseases, said building or ward to be erected without expense to 
said hospital except such as it may elect, but to be paid for out of 
an appropriation for that purpose contained in the District appro- 
priation bill, approved March 3, 1897, on plans to be furnished by 
said Commissioners and approved by the health officer (another 
'regular' doctor in the Apostolic succession in the Catholic 
priesthood) of the District of Columbia, and that when the said 
building or ward is fully completed it shall be turned over to the 
officers of Providence Hospital." It is a fair presumption that 
the Building or Ward erected under perversion of the spirit of 
the act, would remain very many years and be a source of rev- 
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every one of the "ninety-five medical and surgical patients, who 
are destitute in the City of Washington" who, if the whole 
appropriation was put in the Building or Ward, in the light of 
the history of this Church, could look forward with lively anti- 
cipation of an early meeting with "friends gone before." With 
a National Health Department supervised and conducted by 
the Apostolic "regular" physician of the Catholic priesthood 
handling such contracts, under legislation "to wholly eliminate 
political interference with their management/ ' cooperating with 
similar Departments in the several States, "For the moral and 
physical health of the Nation," how long think you it would be 
before collusion between the Catholic Church and its child 
"regular" medicine would be building out of National and State 
funds Catholic Churches and Hospitals ENTIRE for the "moral 
and physical health of the Nation." You see what political 
adoption of the child of the Catholic Church, "regular" medi- 
cine has done in one case with government funds for the Catholic 
church, and analogous things are what will be done under a 
National Health Department now sought. "If the plan is found 
to be as far-reaching and serviceable as the President now be- 
lieves it will be, it will be one of the most important moves of his 
administration.' ' Washington Times, March 28th, 1909. And the 
plans of the "Scheme to consolidate all Government (Health) 
Agencies into one, is now in the hands of Surgeon General 
Wyman, a "Regular" physician by Apostolic succession of the 
Catholic priesthood. 

"It was the Quebec Act (1774) which proved the immediate 
cause of the Revolution. The first outburst of indignation against 
that act is found in the famous Suffolk resolution, the tenth sec- 
tion of which is couched in these words: '10. That the late act 
of Parliament for establishing the Roman Catholic religion and 
the French laws in that extensive country, now called Canada, 
is dangerous to an extreme degree to the Protestant religion 
and to the civil rights and liberties of America, and therefore, 
as men and Protestant Christians, we are indispensably to take 
all proper measures for our security.' These resolutions were 
prepared by General Joseph Warren, and were adopted at an in- 
dignation meeting held at Suffolk, Massachusetts, Sept. 9, 1774, 
and approved by the members of the first Continental Congress, 
then in session at Philadelphia, on the 17th day of the same 
month. This was the second starting point of the Revolution, 
and Warren, their author, fell in their defense at Bunker Hill, 
June 17, 1775. It was the Quebec act which Richard Henry Lee, 
in the same Congress, pronounced the worst of all the bad acts 



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of the British Parliament, an opinion in which he was sustained 
by every member of that body except the treacherous Galloway. 
This is the act referred to in the Declaration of Independence, 
where the King and Parliament of Great Britain are denounced 
'For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring 
province, establishing therein an arbitrary government and en- 
larging i,ts boundaries so as to render it at once an example and 
FIT INSTRUMENT for introducing the same absolute rule into 
these colonies.' 

"The Quebec Act was designed to create two factions in British 
America, divided on religious, racial, and territorial lines, either 
of which might, when occasion arose, be used as an engine to 
keep the other in perpetual subjection to the central authority 
at London. It was not doubted that the animosities engendered 
by a long series of wars in the past could be kept alive as a 
convenient leverage for oppression by allowing Quebec to retain 
its Bourbon constitution. The Protestant colonies flew to arms 
immediately upon hearing of its passage. To them it seemed 
the worst act of perfidy and high treason against God and the 
British constitution, of which it was possible to be guilty. Be- 
fore they disliked the King as a tyrant; now they hated and 
despised him as a royal apostate, as a traitor, as a co-conspi- 
rator with their old enemies, the Jesuits, and their Canadian 
Indian proselytes. And hence, in the Declaration of Independ- 
ence we find the King charged with having 'abdicated in this 
country,' and with having 'endeavored to bring on the inhabi- 
tants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known 
rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, 
sexes, and conditions.' The horror and dismay created by the 
Quebec Act may best be judged of by considering the state of 
religious feeling in New England in Colonial times. This is well 
illustrated in the will of Judge Paul Dudley, of Massachusetts, 
made in 1750. In his will Judge Dudley bequeathed to Har- 
vard College a sum of money for a series of annual lectures on 
four specified subjects, 'the third lecture,' so the will runs, 'to 
be for the detecting and convicting and exposing the idolatry 
of the Roman Church, their tyranny, usurpations, and crying 
wickednesses in their high places; and, finally, that the Church 
of Rome is that mystical Babylon, that man of sin, that apos- 
tate Church spoken of in the New Testament.' It is not strange, 
then, that we find Hamilton, as well as Warren, attacking the 
Quebec Act. This attack is contained in his pamphlet entitled 
'A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress of 1774' (2 
Hamilton, 1 to 36), and was addressed to the FARMERS of 



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New York, as the surest method of exciting them to resistance. 
Being ruined by taxes is not the worst you have to tear,' said 
he, 'what security would you have for your lives? Would you put 
your religion in the power of any man living? Remember, civil 
and religious liberty always go together. If the foundation of 
one be SAPPED the other will fall of course" (2 Hamilton's 
Works, 26). "Does not your blood run cold to think that an 
English Parliament should pass an act for the establishment of 
arbitrary power and Popery in such an extensive country? If 
they had any regard for the freedom and happiness of man- 
kind, they would never have done it. If they had been friends 
of the Protestant cause (Lincoln's cause) they would never have 
provided such a nursery for its great enemy; they would not 
have given such great encouragement to Popery. The thought 
of their conduct in this particular shocks me. It must shock 
you, too, my friends. Beware of trusting yourselves to men 
capable of such an action 1 " (2 Hamilton's Works, 26-27). If a 
man who wrought for civil and religious liberty, and such be the 
cause of God, and Hamilton be accorded by the Almighty a 
place in Heaven upon his profession of faith, with what com- 
placency must Hamilton view Marquette the Jesuit side by side 
with him in the Temple of liberty, while the Jesuit of Massachu- 
setts Bay, holds descendants {much descendant) of Hamilton in 
Massachusetts Bay at bay with the magic word "bigot." When 
next we praise the patriotism of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence, let us be honest and frankly say it was framed and signed 
by Protestant bigots. When next we mention the Continental 
Congress let us be honest and put upon it the modern brand of 
"Protestant Bigot." 

When next we eulogize Washington, identify him as the man 
who wrote the drivel of a "Farewell Address" to those who 
should come after him, as though modern thought and educa- 
tion could accept such "bigotry." Let us in the future be hon- 
est with Lincoln, and when to conform to the custom of the 
times, we meet to HONOR him, let us admit he was a most un- 
couth, peculiar man, a sort of farmer candidate from the corn- 
fields of Illinois, and a "Protestant Bigot." When we praise 
our educational institutions as the bulwark of our free institu- 
tions (having succeeded entirely the protestant bigotry of the 
signers of the Declaration of Independence, the Continental 
Congress, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Warren, and 
Lincoln) let us point with pride to Harvard, the beneficiary of 
the Protestant Bigot Paul Dudley, and as an evidence of en- 
lightenment quote her with Yale, Columbia, Cornell, University 



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of Chicago, Williamstown, Johns Hopkins, Leland Stan- 
ford, Michigan, the Jesuit Georgetown University, Cardinal 
Gibbons, Archbishop Ireland, Knights of Columbus, American 
Federation of Catholic Societies, and the Republican State 
Platforms of Ohio and Delaware, and the National Republican 
Platform, in favor of the National Health Department, with 
absolute power, above "political interference" dominated by the 
Apostolic American Medical Association, and its mother the 
Catholic Church that the same kind of Jesuitical tricks may in 
the Nation and the several States, be played between the child 
"regular" medicine and its sister in the Church, the "Sisters of 
Charity," as was played in the Providence Hospital case. 

Let us who did not die for our country or risk our fortunes, 
lives and sacred honor, to secure to posterity its substance, 
admit that we live upon its shadows and its sophistries, or 
endorse the bigotry of the men we affect to revere as patriots. 

To the dull who can not see, or will not see the "regular" 
profession of medicine as a part of the Roman Catholic Church, 
resort must be had to sacred and profane history. 

In Matthew 10. 6-7 and 8, Christ says to his Apostles: "But go 
rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as ye go, 
preach, saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Heal the 
sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils; freely 
ye have received, freely give." The Roman Catholic Church 
claims Apostolic succession, -hence in obedience to the Divine 
injunction, it is undeniably a part of her mission to "heal the 
sick." Pliny, who himself believed little in the profession of 
medicine, but more in oracles and simple home remedies, has 
also preserved for us the denunciations of Cato the Censor. He 
held that all medical services ought to be gratuitously rendered. 
For this reason, he declared, the Romans, placed his sanctuary 
outside of the city upon the island in the Tiber. Besides, he 
adds: "The race of Greeks is very vicious; and, my son, believe 
this as the voice of an oracle, that, with its literature, it will 
spoil everything at Rome. It will be worse still if it sends us its 
physicians. They have sworn among themselves to kill all 
other nations with their medicines. They exercise their art for 
the sake of gain, and seek to get our confidence in order to be 
able to poison us the more easily. Remember, my son, that I 
charge you to have nothing to do with the physicians." Rome 
seems to have profited by this hint. 

"It has been thought by some that the Asklepiads (the priests 
of Aesulapius) were not members of the sacerdotal order. The 
fact, however, that they had, like other priesthoods, rights of 
their own and occult doctrines for the initiated, is enough to 



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set that question at rest." — Wilder. Even the Methodist de- 
nomination of today probably have their name from "The dis- 
ciples of Asklepiades (who) were regarded as a distinct school, 
and designated Methodici or Methodists." Thus a healing di- 
vinity of a subject race to ancient Rome probably furnished to 
later Rome the word with which she was to stigmatize Wesley a 
Protestant, who dissented from both her religious and medical 
dogma. Strange enough to the unlearned, the essential in that 
school of internal medicine, was the "domestic prescription," 
to appear and be urged in the writings of Wesley centuries later, 
who "commenting upon the ways of modern medical men, re- 
marked that those who did not know their abstruse terminology, 
but understand only how to restore the sick to health, they 
branded with the name of Empirics. ... As theories in- 
creased, simple medicines were more and more disregarded and 
disused; till in a course of years the greater part of them were 
forgotten, at least in the more polished nations. In the room 
of these, abundance of new ones were introduced by reasoning, 
speculative men; and those more remote from common observa- 
tion. Hence, rules for the application of them, and medical 
books, were immensely multiplied; till at length, Physic became 
an abstruse science, quite out of the reach, of ordinary men. 
Physicians now began to be held in admiration, as persons who 
were something more than human. And profit attended their 
employ, as well as honor; so that they had now two weighty 
reasons for keeping the bulk of mankind at a distance, that they 
might not pry into the mysteries of their profession. To this 
end they increased those difficulties by design, which were in a 
manner by accident. They filled their writings with abundance 
of technical terms utterly unintelligible to plain men." Verily, 
Wesley was a "heretic" religiously and medically, and the 
reason for his being called a Methodist, or a wonderful 
historical coincidence follows: "Claudius Galenus (Galen) a stu- 
dent of an Asklepiad and an Empiric, went to Rome in the 
year 165. "It was not long, however, before he drew upon him- 
self the jealousy and enmity of the Roman guild of physicians. 
He was infinitely their superior in skill, liberality of sentiment, 
and erudition, and was hated accordingly. At the desire of the 
leading men of the city, the savants, philosophers, and noble- 
men, he delivered a series of public lectures upon Anatomy. 
This afforded the desired pretext. It was a violation of the 
Code in force among Roman physicians, as well as of the so- 
called Hippocratic oath, which forbade the instructing of non- 
medical persons in any of the mysteries of professional knowl- 



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edge." So the denial of medical knowledge to the men not 
educated as "Regulars" and their stigmatization and persecution 
as "quacks" by the American Medical Association is borrowed 
from the Rome of some 1800 or more years ago. "In the first cen- 
tury the opinion generally received was that the Apostles had 
obtained the faculty of curing all diseases by means of the 
apposition of the hands or by injunction with holy oils and 
ointments; and it was believed that the disciples of Christ had 
transmitted the power which they had received from their Mas- 
ter to the elders of each community. ... In the fourth 
century Christianity had extended over the Roman Empire, and, 
for the reasons just mentioned, medical education in the public 
schools was everywhere totally neglected, if we except Alexan- 
dria, where, even at that period, it was held in some account." 
. The Persian dominion now became the place of refuge 
for men of learning. The disciples of Nestorious, outlawed and 
persecuted by the dominant Catholic authorities at Constanti- 
nople, found homes and protection under the blacksmith's 
apron. There they established the Khaldaen Church in the 
country of the Euphrates, which soon extended its missionary 
operations over all the far East, clear to Egypt, India, and China. 
Their converts eventually became more numerous than the com- 
municants of the Catholic Church, both Greek and Roman com- 
bined. They were everywhere the patrons of learning. Their 
university at Edessa was famous for the influence which it ex- 
ercised over the Eastern world. Their medical college (Khal- 
daen Church) also became justly distinguished for the number 
of its professors, their superior scholarship, and the excellence 
of their doctrines. A public hospital was also established at 
which clinical instruction was imparted to students, and the 
institution was thronged from every region where the Khaldaen 
Church had attained a foothold. . . . About the same period a 
hospital for the reception of the poor was founded at Rome by 
Fabiola, the friend of St. Hieronymos (Jerome), which has been 
erroneously supposed by many to have been the first institution 
of its kind. . . . Meanwhile, Alexandria continued to hold up the 
dimming torch of medical knowledge. The Emperor Justinian 
closed the schools of philosophy, and so put an end to medical 
instruction in other parts of the Empire. About this time, in 
the year 543, a plague devastated the Roman world. It attacked 
all, without regard to climate, season, age, or mode of life, and 

its fatality has hardly been surpassed Whole towns 

were deserted, and the arts were abandoned. Henceforth bar- 
barism was universal. No physicians of the period made any 



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record of the terrible visitation that could be of service to 
others, so great was their ignorance. . . . The dismember- 
ment of the Roman Empire, the utter overthrow of Persia, and 
the rise of a new faith in Arabia, changed the entire aspect of 
the civilized world. With the fall of Alexandria the old order 
of things passed away. Ancient learning was vanquished in its 
last fortress. Apollo and Aesculapius were dethroned ; the Askle- 
piad, Dogmatist, Empiricist (Quacks of the present day by order 
of Rome), and other sectaries passed into oblivion. Only Galen 
remained as the chief luminary of the long night that now hung 
its black curtain over the medical world. . . . The world 
was then Gothic, Greek, and Moslem. The sun of knowledge (in 
the year 476) had set all over Europe, and only stars and torches 
remained to lessen the heavy darkness. All kinds of learning, 
while not prescribed outright, were, nevertheless, held in low 
esteem. Kings and clergy alike were illiterate; barons and 
bishops were sometimes unable to write their names. The com- 
monality had sunk into besotted ignorance. The art of healing 
was buried in the same abyss. From its rank as a part of learn- 
ing it became a function of religion. 'After the sixth century,' 
says Macdonald, 'the Monks of the West practiced the healing 
art as part of THEIR DIVINE CALLING, by resorting to prayers, 
relics of martyrs, holy water, and other Romish ceremonials. 1 . . . 
The Roman missionaries whom the first Bishop Gregory sent to 
England to convert the Saxons, opened schools there in which 
medicine was made a part of the study. After the phantom of a 
new Empire had risen at Rome, teachers were procured from 
those institutions for those just established in France and Ger- 
many. . . . For two or three centuries medicine was taught 
in such fashion in the schools connected with the cathedrals. 
The knowledge imparted was inconsiderable, and the skill and 
morals of the practitioners were so inferior as to bring scandal 
and contempt upon them. Finally the various councils of the 
Gallican and Roman Churches, some centuries afterward, pro- 
hibited priests outright from practicing physic or surgery. . . . 
Philosophy and 'magic,' as has been elsewhere remarked, were 
taught with medicine and other arts at the Arabian schools. 
The former was the educating of causes and origins, thus account- 
ing for the manifestations and results, which are so commonly 
exalted by the designation of science. Magic, as defined by the 
Grecian philosopher, Proklos, formed the last or lowest depart- 
ment of SACERDOTAL knowledge. It comprised the investiga- 
tion of everything sublunary, its nature, power and quality. 
In this scope are embraced the elementary substances and their 



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constituents, animals, plants and their products, stones and 
herbs — in short, the power and essence of everything. "There is 
a lamentable departure from Divinity in man," says this philoso- 
pher, "when nothing worthy of heaven or celestial concerns is 
heard or believed, and when every divine voice is by a necessary 
silence, dumb." . . . The ministrations of persons endowed 
with specific healing power was sought instead, and exorcisms 
were employed; so that all recoveries were esteemed as special 
divine interposition. In this way the charge of the sick con- 
tinued for a long period in the hands of religious men exclu- 
sively. When orders of monks were instituted, the Benedictines 
became the principal surgeons and therapeutists." . . . "The 
world had been full of disorder. The Emperor had interposed 
his authority at Rome, taking from its Senate and people the 
power to elect the Pontiff, and exercising it himself. It was 
not so, however, for a long period. The Church, as denoted by 
its rulers and to the exclusion of the commonalty, became in- 
carnate, created anew, and the umpire of Christendom in the 
person of the Carpenter's son. This was Hildebrand, the son of 
the flame, the Christian Bacchus, a Benedictine monk from 
Clugny, in Burgundy. For twenty years he had ruled as chan- 
cellor in the Roman Councils as the adviser of Pontiff's and 
Senators, the power behind the Episcopal throne. He was able 
to procure the absolute prohibition of marriage among the 
clergy, the vesting of the elections of the Roman bishop in the 
College of Cardinals, and what was more, the supremacy of the 
ecclesiastical authority over the Imperial, and so eventually 
over Christendom itself." So Hildebrand, who in, and from his 
day, has crowded the world with trouble and misery, by reason 
of his Benedictine Monkship can claim the proud distinction of 
the greatest "regular" that ever lived. 

"After this period the purpose sprung up to dissever the 
practice of medicine and surgery from the religious profession. 
The bishops and arch -deacons, were forbidden in the next cen- 
tury, to prescribe for the sick; but the lower clergy were only 
restricted from surgery. . . . Many notable ecclesiastics were 
eminent as practitioners. ... As late as the fifteenth cen- 
tury, John Arundale, afterward bishop of Colchester in England, 
was physician to Henry VI, and other monarchs employed the 
medical services of abbotts. The famous Peter Abelard taught 
medicine and allowed the nuns in his convent to practice sur- 
gery." Hildegard, one of them, was canonized as a saint in honor 
of her medical services. 

"Medicine assumed a more imposing attitude when the Bene- 



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dictine Monks turned a more particular attention to it, and 
established two celebrated schools — the one at Monte-Cassino 
and the other at Salernum." Says Prof. Draper: ''Nicholas V.,, 
the son of a physician, and himself learned in medicine and other 
knowledge, was then Pontiff at Rome. Under him the Roman 
Court was thronged by men of letters, and the Vatican Library 
was founded." Another ''regular" doctor in the Pope's chair. 
This same "regular" doctor, "i'he Roman prelate, Nicholas V., also 
became a blasphemous despot (how like the modern 'regular') 
putting an end to the liberties of the capitol, and' establishing 
a reign of terror, ending only by his death." .' . . "The prac- 
tice of medicine, so far as it was exercised by ecclesiastics, was 
principally carried on by monks of the Benedictine order. About 
the year 1450, one of these, Basil Valentin, a German, introduced 
various metallic substances into the list of remedies. Like other 
physicians of the time he was a student of alchemy, which he 
appears to have interpreted in the exoteric and physical sense. 
Beginning with antimony he tested it on his brother celibates 
with results so untoward that they gave it the uncanny name 
which it still retains, as deadly to monks. Despite this unpro- 
pitious beginning . . . the drug continues to be held in 
esteem." . . . Mercury the favorite remedy of the "regular" 
known for ages in China and Eastern India, it is significant was 
first employed in Western medicine in Italy in 1497, when the 
practice of medicine was almost exclusively in the hands of the 
Roman Catholic order of the Benedictine Monks. 

"Paracelsus in point of genius, original research and intuitive 
sagacity deservedly holds a superior rank. . . . The youth was 
very precocious, and after a term of study with several distin- 
guished churchmen, entered the university as Basel in 1509, in his 
nineteenth year. After this he became a pupil of the celebrated 
Tritheim, Bishop of Spanheim, who taught him philosophy, 
alchemy and the properties of metals. He next spent a period 
in the laboratory of Sigismund Fugger in the Tyrol, where he 
attained greater proficiency in chemistry and metallurgy. . . . 
At the age of twenty, he made a tour of Europe, travelling on 
foot, visiting the various mines, and consulting with learned 
men and others in his quest, for information. 'I have pursued 
knowledge at the risk of my life,' he said of himself; 'and I have 
not been ashamed to learn of peddlers, news mongers and bar- 
bers.' ' In 1526 he was appointed town physician for Basel. 

In his lectures he was bold in his innovations, advanced the 
hypothesis underlying the doctrine of Homoeopathy and the 
dogma of direct and specific medication. "Paracelsus was more 



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famous, however, as an apostle of modern medicine. He would 
not be bound by the consensus of opinion entertained, by the 
majority 01 the medical profession of the time, but unsparingly 
denounced it as an artificial system consisting of a gibberish 
unintelligible to the common people, a science which was only 
an invention to cheat and deceive, and an art, not of curing the 
sick but of worming into the favor of the rich, swindling the 
poor, and gaining admittance to the tables of men of high 
standing. 'You live upon imposture,' he declared 'and the aid 
and abetment of the legal profession enable you to carry on 
your impositions and to evade punishment by the law.' 
The best of our popular physicians are the ones who do the 
least harm. But, unfortunately, some poison their patients 
with mercury, and others purge or bleed them to death." 
(Washington was bled to death, and the first printing press set 
up in thiscountry I am told was set up by Jesuits between Wash- 
ington City and Mt. Vernon). "There are some who have learned 
so much that their learning has driven out all their common sense, 
and there are others who care a great deal more for their own 
profit than for the health of their patients. . . . Such utter- 
ances speedily brought down upon him the bitter animosity of 
his colleagues. They soon became prolific in finding pretexts 
for attacking him. . . . The crowning act of enmity, however, 
was the ingratitude and treachery of the Canon of Lichtenfels. 
He had been given up to die by his physicians, but Paracelsus had 
succeeded in restoring him to health. He turned upon his benefac- 
tor, accusing him of sorcery, necromancy and drunkenness. The 
City Council of Basel, to its owndisgrace, took sides with the eccle- 
siastic. Paracelsus indignantly denounced their action, and to es- 
cape prosecution for his temerity, left the city. After a series of 
journeyings he came to Nuremberg. The physicians of this 
place, on learning of his arrival, published him as an imposter 
and charlatan. He replied by asking for patients suffering from 
incurable diseases. Several cases of elephantiasis were pro- 
duced and successfully treated. Finally in 1541, the Prince 
Palatine, Duke Ernst of Bavaria, invited him to make his home 
at Salzburg. The malignity of his enemies pursued him to this 
place of refuge, and he was treacherously murdered by assassins, 
September, 1541." An experience not unusual to this day with 
men who go up against the Church or her child, Apostolic 
"regular" medicine. Giordano Bruno said of Paracelsus: "The 
highest merits of Paracelsus, is that he was the first to treat 
medicine as a philosophy." Gioradano Bruno himself suffered 
martyrdom, and time, enfranchised minds, and consciences, 
have vindicated, Copernicus, Bruno, Galileo, Paracelsus and 



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others, the victims of this Church-medical combination. "It 
will be worse still if it sends us its physicians. They have 
sworn among themselves to kill all other nations with their medi- 
cines. They exercise their art for the sake of gain, and seek to 
get our confidence in order to be able to poison us the more 
easily. Remember, my son, that I charge you to have nothing 
to do with physicians." — Cato the Censor. 

It is peculiar, if not significant, that J. P. Morgan has been, 
during the Roosevelt administration, the great Trust promoter. 
That lie is the Pope's banker and is now, or was, not long since 
in Rome, and is credited with a personal friendship with him. 
That "while on the Red Sea April 15th (and the Bible has a 
valuable Red Sea reference in Exodus XIV), en route to Mom- 
basa, Theodore Roosevelt wrote a letter to Cardinal Satolli, in 
which he said: 'I look forward to renewing our acquaintance a 
year hence when I shall present my respects to the Holy Father 
to whom I beg of you to give my WARM PERSONAL RE- 
GARDS."— Washington Post, 5-3-'09. 

That Morgan has been Roosevelt's financial conferee on Gov- 
ernment matters. That in the Pope and Morgan group of Trusts 
is the Sugar Trust, caught in $9,000,000 of frauds on the Govern- 
ment. That at least three Government weighers reported the 
frauds through the regular channels and "Instead of their 
reports being acted upon, each of the men, in turn, was trans- 
ferred to duty elsewhere." — Washington Post, 5-8-'09. That 
while capital battled in Wall Street for control of the three 
largest life insurance companies in the world, the "warm per- 
sonal regards" of the Pope, with his Roman Catholic Attorney- 
General, chased Morgan's antagonist through the Federal courts 
of the West to a $29,000,000 fine, upon a corporation not 
indicted or before the court, which was reversed with a rebuke 
from the reviewing court, plainly implying ignorance of the 
Attorney-General and his staff, or the intentional "misuse of 
such (legal) terms to spread misinformation respecting a judg- 
ment that in the nature of the case is bound to attract wide 
public attention," and telling the judge reviewed that if he can 
assess such a fine on such a record, it is because he, himself, is 
above the law. And itwill not be forgotten that the Dred Scott 
decision was denounced asaprostitutionof aFederalcourttoserve 
a special interest in which the Popewas interested. That a "Bank- 
er's Panic" was precipitated in New York which cost the people 
untold millions of money, but when the saw-dust settled the 
Pope and Morgan Trust had, with the aid of the Pope's "warm per- 
sonal regards" and against the law, which he and his "warm per- 
sonal regards " are both above, taken in the Tennessee Coal and 



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Iron Co., to protect the people and keep the panic from spreading, 
disastrously. That the profligate expenditures of the Roose- 
velt administration invites a bond issue to the advantage of the 
Pope and Morgan trust in time of peace, and the breaking of the 
Berlin treaty by Austria, the slave of the Pope, with the back- 
ing of Germany, the growing intimacy between Germany and 
Japan, will yet awake the people to the similarity of the Jesuit- 
ical disposition of both the Pope, our internally intrenched 
enemy, and Japan, our evil-eyed enemy in prospective alliance 
with Austria and Germany, from the listless lethargy now upon 
us, and it may be to blood. Many isolated circumstances and 
incidents indicate this. Would you believe that Germany and 
Japan could be hostile to us, when they both decorate the retiring 
president of Harvard, who is one of the most distinguished 
pushers of the Pope's scheme for a National Health Department, 
and has had for years the former Catholic Attorney-General 
of my "warmest personal regards" for an "overseer," and we are 
further lulled by "William (who) has taken great personal inter- 
est in the recent lecturing tour throughout the central and 
eastern states by Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador 
to Washington, who, in fact, undertook the tour at the Kaiser's 
express orders, with the object of ' clearing up misunderstandings' 
and enlightening the Americans as to the REAL MEANING of Ger- 
many's prodigious naval armaments." (How sweet — and Jesuit- 
ical of William.) 

"The London Times, the most influential newspaper in Great 
Britain and widely known as the Thunderer, says that the peril 
is one that is close at hand and it points to Germany's career to 
justify fears for the future. 'Prussia-Germany has risen by a 
succession of swift blows (like Japan on Russia) dealt to rivals 
whom she has first deliberately lulled into false security. From 
the day when Frederick the Great marched suddenly into 
Silesia to the day when Frederick William III ceased to give 
the ambassador of Napoleon comprehensive assurances of his un- 
swerving fidelity to his good ally, and to the day when Bismarck 
asked Roob if all was ready, and then garbled the one telegram, 
her triumphant course has been marked by a series of surprises. 
She has always known how to catch her enemies napping, as by 
their own confession she last year caught the British admiralty 
and the British government.'" 

Yale and many other institutions aid this scheme, and thus 
the greatest, and "cheap defense of nations," is turned against us. 

The Roosevelt Homes Commission, his Country Life Commis- 
sion, and his Forest Reserve policy could easily have a place in 



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the Pope and Morgan economy. The two first reports and their 
widely advertised scope, would lull the farmer and the common 
people, and the Forest Reserves would check to that extent the 
opening of new farms, and keep people in the cities and facto- 
ries where they can be better controlled. The School Book 
Trust in the Pope and Morgan Trust or Group, serving an inter- 
est openly fought and condemned by the Pope, will be found to 
have less and less of patriotic sentiment. The funds of the 
farmer, and common people in the great New York life insurance 
companies, have their balance of power in Wall Street to the 
detriment of the people. Whereas in the civil war line-up of 
the Pope and the Democratic party, the East and West were 
against the South, the Cotton Trust being in the Pope and Mor- 
gan Group, the new sectional line-up of the Pope and Morgan 
Trust, is the East and South against the Mississippi Valley, 
whose pure air gave us Lincoln, Grant, Logan, Chase, and Anti- 
Trust Sherman, and where in impotent protest against the To- 
bacco Trust in the Pope and Morgan Group, the honest farmers 
of the States of Clay, of Prentice, and Lincoln's birth, ride to 
anarchy, an illuminating example to every Western farmer of 
what is in store for him at the hands of the unholy alliance 
Lincoln warned them against. The prophetic battle ground of 
Armageddon, of Israel restored, the great plain upon which 
monarchy is to be broken, the valley of Lincoln the prophet. 
The Standard Oil prosecution having fallen to the dignity of a 
police court proceeding and accomplished a purpose not averse 
to the interest of its promoters; the Pope and Morgan Tobacco 
Trust, not so fortunate in its experience with Sherman anti- 
trust law, it is now announced that ill-advised suits will now be 
dropped, and Attorney-General Wickersham says "methods that 
were necessary to awaken the business community are no longer 
essential, but that attempts to FORM trusts or monopolies will 
be vigorously punished" (Cong. Rec, 2023). 

William Nelson Cromwell, who gave a building on H street, 
Washington, to the Roman Catholic St. Joseph's Orphan Asy- 
um, paid a general tribute to the Attorney-General. 

The Roosevelt Administration initiating the Panama Canal 
libel suits remind us, that the editors who dare lift a voice 
against men alleged to be discreditably involved in a Pope- 
Morgan-Republican public utility, are up against the Pope- 
Morgan-Republican proposition to be awed by their own 
courts, while the balance of the press shall give their silent 
assent, to the Pope's doctrine of the liberty of the press, while 
the Pope and Corporate Capital does its perfect work. Think 



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you Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams, Madison, and Lin- 
coln who were not so busy trying to make money as are we, did 
not know ancient history by heart, and out of it interpret the 
warnings against our allowing a repetition of history all too 
plain to men who do not believe these men were unequal to the 
problems of this day, nor that the Fathers formed a Constitu- 
tion too harrow for our day, and who believe that their warning 
heede.d in time, we would never have to hang to our lamp-posts, 
the church on one arm and the Trust magnate on the other. 

Theodore Roosevelt is the John C. Calhoun of his party. I 
read his criticisms of the early patriots and wonder if a "foreign 
influence" intrenched by him in this Government did not 
shrewdly measure in him that "Creatures of this sort are the 
tools which usurpers employ in building despotism," and ac- 
cordingly elevate him to his first presidency. If Mr. Roosevelt, 
reading his own works, and quotation from Governeur Morris r 
"Creatures of this sort are the tools which usurpers employ in 
building despotism," has realized his own estimate of himself to 
have coincided with his estimate of Governeur Morris, that, 
"His follies surpassed the worst of the follies he condemned," 
we may well commend the prudence which sought the jungles 
of Africa to await the calmer judgment of the American people. 
Moses said: "The days of our years are three score years and 
ten." Under the new dispensation with the Roman Catholic 
Church practically in charge of medicine up to and today,. 
Health Culture says: "Once arrived at adult age the average 
man or woman has few years of survival to expect. 
Even during the last fifteen years the death rate among all per- 
sons over fifty-five years of age of both sexes has arisen very 
considerably." 

Mr. John K. Gore, president of the Actuaries Society, supple- 
ments as follows: ".'".. . There is evidence that for more 
than two hundred years at least there has been in Europe and 
Americaamoreorless CONTINUOUS decrease in the mean duration 
of human life." As Cato the Censor had charged of iEsculapians, 
"The race of Greeks is very vicious; and, my son, believe this as 
the voice of an oracle, that, with its literature it will spoil every- 
thing at Rome. It will be worse still if it sends us its physicians. 
They have sworn among themselves to kill all other nations 
with their medicines. They exercise their art for the sake of 
gain, and seek to get our confidence in order to be able to poison 
us the more easily. Remember, my son, that I charge you to have 
nothing to do with physicians." "The Roman people had gotten 
along without physicians," says Pliny, "for a period of more than 



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600 years; a people, too, which had never shown itself slow to 
adopt all useful arts, and even welcomed the medical art with 
avidity until after a fair experience, there was found ample reason 
to condemn it." 

The Roman Catholic Church in her propaganda to subdue the 
Earth, was not slow to adopt the HINT of Cato the Censor, if 
not the Asklepiads' system; Paracelsus who announced the 
hypothesis underlying the doctrine of Homoeopathy and the 
dogma of direct and specific medication, later reiterated the 
essence of the charges of Cato, and in our day, Dr. William 
Osier, the "regular" of international fame, acknowledges "the 
constant and reproachful object lesson of homoeopathy," 
adopts the doctrines practically of Asklepiades for his own 
"new school," and his fellows ask upon this doctrine fought by 
the church through its whole history, and now with the endorse- 
ment of the church, that they may have under Federal legisla- 
tion in the United States, the feudal status under the Emperor 
Octavianus; "Henceforth they were a privileged guild in Rome." 

I deem it absolutely necessary to the public welfare, that the 
"regular" system of medicine be absolutely divorced from mon- 
opolistic or predominate privilege with the National and State 
governments; that the United States withdraw from member- 
ship she now has in the American Medical Association and by 
detail of men wholly in the employ of the Government sitting 
in the legislative body of that institution. 

That provision shall be made for the trial upon merit in the 
Government institutions of the several systems of Eclectic, 
Homoeopathic and Osteopathic healing and the results of the 
same be noted with the view, that the best system for the peo- 
ple be adopted in the governmental agencies, whether it be a 
specific system or a composite, and that in the Government in- 
stitutions, the administration of so-called remedies or preven- 
tives entailing morbid conditions or producing actual disease 
be inhibited by law, where equally or more efficient remedies 
for such diseases exist, and that any physician, himself addicted 
to the liquor or drug habit be ineligible to practice medicine or 
healing in any form. 

This provision I would also suggest as a platform tenet. 

With Lincoln's words as a basis, and these suggestions supple- 
mentary to action for return to the sound principles of govern- 
ment securing and safeguarding beyond PERADVENTURE civil 
and religious liberty as preserved by the Fathers until affected 
by the invasion of Catholicism and its malign influence; again 
to be returned to through Lincoln, had his life been spared; 



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making a platform upon which all patriots may meet and blot 
out the family quarrels fomented by a "foreign influence" design- 
ing to that purpose, let us attempt a family reunion, in which 
all are prodigal sons, and at the foot of the tombs of the 
Fathers who builded for us more wisely than we have esti- 
mated, renovate, purify, and rededicate to civil and religious lib- 
erty the fabric transmitted to us inviolate, and which we 
in high treason to our children have so foully polluted. 

Putting this proposition to leading men generally in all walks 
of life, I trust I may thus be an instrument to bring together 
for political action such as give me favorable response. Of 
course, this is but a small part of the matter available for cam- 
paign purposes. 

I beg to request that considering the essence of this proposi- 
tion, I may have your views and judgment as to the practica- 
bility of such a movement, and especially among the farmers, 
who were the reliance of Hamilton and of Lincoln. Trusting 
that I may have opportunity to thank you for the courtesy of 
an expression, I am, 

Very respectfully, M. H. Wilcoxon. 

817 Twelfth street northwest, Washington, D. C. 
Superior Bath-House, Hot Springs, Ark. 

"I do not pretend to be a prophet, but though not a prophet, I 
see a very dark cloud on our horizon, and that cloud is coming 
from Rome. It is filled with tears of blood. The true motive- 
power is secreted behind the thick walls of the Vatican, the 
colleges and schools of the Jesuits, the convents of the nuns, 
and the confessional boxes of Rome." — Lincoln. 

". . . At what point, then, is this approach of danger to be 
expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst 
us. It can not come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, 
we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free- 
men, we must live through all time or die by suicide.'' — Lincoln. 

"Dead, he speaks to men who now willingly hear what before 
they refused to listen to. Now his simple and weighty words 
will be gathered like those of Washington, and your children 
and your children's children shall be TAUGHT to ponder V e 
simplicity and DEEP WISDOM of utterances which in their time 
passed in party heat as idle words. Ye people, hehold a martyr 
whose blood, as so many articulate words, pleads for FIDELITY, 
for LAW, for LIBERTY."— Beech er. 



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